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Cheers gents, Managed to pull a log whilst I was having one of the "on/off" events, as it let me into the admin page. Only thing that seems to be happening during this time is the application of QoS, interestingly I wasn't playing any games at the time and none were loaded on my system.... Log1.txt

Ok so I've isolated the separate issue around streaming apps (on the Samsung TV - i.e My4 and ITV) not working at all. If I disable congestion control via. the '3 line' menu, they start working immediately. I tried to experiment with turning it back on and setting the TV priority in the flower to higher, and also setting up a custom traffic prioritisation rule (set as netflix). These didn't seem to make a difference. Any thoughts on these ones? Thanks for the help Liam, Fraser

Right, so just had a drop. Unfortunately on this occasion, there was no intermittent recovery - it was just gone for good. I first powered down the ONT (I'm on BT FTTP) and repowered to rule out the connection into the house, this didn't make a difference. I left the connection for 10-15 minutes and repeatedly tried to reconnect to both of those links you shared above Fraser, but couldn't gain a connection - although when trying to access the router login, it did switch from an Edge "err_connection_timed_out" message to a dumaOS spinning wheel at one point, but didn't go any further. This one was a critical one was it cut me off whilst on a work call, so eager for anything you guys can do to help. Cheers

Thanks Fraser, Just so I'm 100% aligned, you want me to take a copy of the log during one of these outages and paste it here? From my above log that I posted, it didn't look like there was a huge amount being posted to the log during the 5 minutes I captured, but will certainly try again. Thanks

Doesn't seem to help - have tried both edge and chrome.....

When I use that link, it doesn't seem to do anything? It just shows this page

Thanks Liam, The connection to the dashboard also tends to glitch out when I'm getting the drops - if I'm already connected it'll show the internet status as "connected" on the dashboard when the drops are happening, but nothing on the dashboard will update and if I try to refresh, it'll just show me the spinning "loading" icons until it reconnects. This has been the same behavior pre and post DHCP changes. Will try the above on the next drop and report back

So I've reserved IP addresses for all my devices as listed above. Still having the same issue with internet dropping. Typically happens once or twice a day, in this pattern: Websites will fail to load and anything connected via. WiFi or my ethernet wired PC will disconnect The connection will sporadically resume and drop every couple of minutes following the first drop, and this will happen continuously if left as-is This is only resolved with a hard power off/power on of the router, at which point a stable connection returns I've just had a couple of drops within the last 5 minutes. Log over the same period: [admin login] from source x, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:51:00 [admin login] from source x, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:51:01 [DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 199.232.57.111, port 443, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:51:39 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone wan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:52:04 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone lan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:52:07 [DumaOS] config write 'com.netdumsoftware.geofilter.settings', Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:52:08 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone wan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:52:19 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone lan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:52:20 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone wan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:53:02 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone lan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:53:04 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone wan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:54:17 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone lan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:54:19 [DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 18.165.227.115, port 443, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:54:48 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone wan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:55:01 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone lan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:55:03 [DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 18.165.227.115, port 443, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:55:50 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone wan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:56:25 [DumaOS] applying qos for zone lan, Thursday, December 08, 2022 09:56:27

Presume he means checking the stats in previous COD's vs. the in-game performance of some of these players. I watched back some footage - it appears on the times I do bad, to be fair, most of my shots are landing. Whilst this doesn't account for any timing/sync differences that lead to "super bullets" where I get instamelted, it does at least point to something else going on. What's happening however is the gun-kick/recoil, especially horizontally, is wild. Could recoil have been adjusted in the most recent patch? I've retuned my attachments now to focus on recoil and did notice an immediate improvement. However, this still doesn't account for how I was able to laser people with the exact same weapon for a full week prior. Unfortunately, I don't save any gameplay of my good games - only bad games, so I can't compare the two. I'll look to do this going forward.

It's like I'm playing a different game yesterday/today. Struggling to get my head around it to be fair. Like my viewpoint is a couple frames behind everyone elses. Interestingly, I seem to have amongst the lowest ping of the match. I have climbed from around 1.15 average to 1.2 KD within around 10 days, crushing every match (see my post around excellent results from the router), and now the game is just absolutely dicking on me between a combination of good players, and hitmarkers. Cod timing...

Today's patch has 100% changed something. I was running a 1.6KD average on my last 10 games for the last week, but can not win a thing today. To test whether it's skill, I ran a few aim lab tasks. Scored near my high score in all of them. So either I've been dumped into a different category of SBMM skill today, or the hit reg has tanked.

Hi all. I made a separate topic on how much fibre broadband and my XR500 have helped over the last couple of weeks. I would separately advise you to record your gameplay and watch it back, especially when you’re having a ‘bullet sponge’ game. Watched back zoomed in and frame by frame, I was surprised by how much my own aim was causing those games where my bullets felt they wouldn’t land. it’s also surprising how slow my reaction time felt on some of those occasions. You’ve got to remember that this is an activity like any other - you’ll have good days and bad days. A lack of sleep and too much caffeine (for example), and your fine motor skills are out the window and you won’t be able to aim as well as another day. A strong warm up routine has helped this a ton (using aimlab).

Hi all, Since release, I was struggling to understand why I'd tanked from a decent K/D on MW19 (around 1.3) to struggling to break even on most games in MW2. This sent me down a rabbit hole to understand why I was experiencing such severe 'bullet sponging' and inconsistent hit reg (conscious that the internet is littered with reports of the same over the last couple of weeks, so I knew I wasn't alone). Post release, I've upgraded both my internet from FTTC to FTTP @ 150meg, and also my BT Home Hub to a XR500 with Geo Fence and QoS enabled. I've noticed a real improvement in my hit detection and connection quality in the last 10 days especially. I'm currently sitting at a c. 1.6 recent KD using SMG's. It really feels like day and night vs. before. When I lose a gunfight and watch it back, I can tell it was my own aim that caused me to die, rather than my bullets not having the desired affect. I'm also surprised how quickly I'm melting people at the moment, although I will add that I've made a point of doing a full warm-up routine on Aim-Lab every time I game, focusing on tracking fast moving targets, so this is also having a big impact. I'll also note that I did follow this guide to optimize my local NIC settings: Steam Community :: Guide :: A Better Online Gaming Experience It's difficult to ascertain whether this is IW/Activision cleaning up their backend, or my local upgrades taking effect; given people continue to experience issues across reddit/twitter, I'm assuming it's my new kit that is helping. It brings me to my question; one thing I noticed in the geo-fence section under server type, it lists 'peer' for my connections. I hadn't looked at this before so was surprised when I saw it; I assumed all modern games used dedicated servers. So my questions: Is MW2 on dedicated servers, peer to peer, or a combination of both? If it's both, am I being put on peer-to-peer due to my settings being too restrictive (in central England, geo-fence set to 750km with ping assist at 30) Would peer-to-peer lobbies be giving me any inherent unintended benefit that would mean I'm playing against inferior players that would justify my increased performance (i.e speculating, but could players on peer-to-peer be for any reason inferior to those on dedicated?) The last thing I want from any of this is an unfair advantage; the intent was never to 'pubstomp', only to have optimal conditions for me to play with my own skill I’m sure when we’ve all played, we’ve come up against those specific players in matches that seem to consistent outgun you, even when you get the drop on them - to the point that you recognise their player model run across your screen, you think ‘i’m about to get beamed’. That’s exactly how I feel at the moment - my shots are just landing every single time, and I’m winning almost all of my 1-2-1 gunfights. I wonder if all these people I’ve come across over the years that were winning every gunfight are actually just the small minority with good routers, good connections and manually adjusted MTU’s Thanks and look forward to any light being shed on this peer vs dedicated question.

Thanks Fraser - will disable QoS and test tomorrow for the streaming apps. Re your first comment - are you saying that I can safely ignore the benchmark result, or I should test moving the sliders whilst setting CC to 'always'? Cheers

Thanks both for the answers. @Zippy - I'll read into IPv6 to get a better understanding of what's what, thanks for the avenue. @Netduma Liam here you go. The prioritized device with 11 on the flower is my gaming PC, same device on the traffic Prio which I've tagged as a games console. Another one - Hula and 4oD have both stopped working on the TV, but Youtube and Netflix are fine. Coincides exactly with the router installation. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Hi all, Recently purchased an XR500 to help get my online game levelled up. I have 150meg fiber, and the XR500 is plugged directly into the ONT on the wall. Overall functionality has been great, and I have QoS, Geo-Fencing and daily benchmarks set up and working. I get full download and upload speeds in line with my advertised package, which is fantastic. My gaming rig is hooked up directly to the router, the rest of the home is via. WiFi. I have a number of questions outstanding which I would appreciate some support on: Question: On the Waveform buffebloat test, I now consistently score A or A+, a massive improvement from my D score with the BT router. However using the built-in connection benchmark in DumaOS, I still get D - it seems the benchmark doesn't trigger QoS in the same way the Waveform bufferbloat test does. I've tried switching QoS to "Always Enabled" but it still doesn't improve the score. My concern is that if the test can be missed, then is it possible other games might be too? Traffic Prio does seem to work during Modern Warfare 2 as the lights are turning on under the Traffic Prioritization dashboard. I have my PC set as a games console Question: The internet in the entire home will occasionally drop, and it takes a full restart of the router at the power socket to kick back in. Checking the logs, I'd initially thought this may be due to DOS attacks (or false alerts in the log), however I can't be 100% sure of this. Any thoughts on diagnostics next? There seems to be no pattern to it in terms of time of day, or usage Question: I used PingPlotter to map my connection to the router. I'm getting occasional 100% packet loss spikes. Just to re-iterate, I'm hardwired to the router with an ethernet cable. Any thoughts on what could be driving this? Plot attached On security I've disabled UPnP - is this considered overkill or sensible? This does result in a moderate NAT but the Gibson Research Corp 'Shields up' port scan tests all give me a green score, and I'm willing to prioritize security above all I've disabled 'respond to ping on internet port' under WAN settings Any other thoughts on how to optimise security whilst balancing performance? Is adding ports to Traffic Prioritization equivalent to opening them, or just prioritizing them (as the name implies) For Info: I went down the NIC optimization rabbithole today and have turned off all power saving features on the NIC, reduced MTU to 1492 to avoid fragmentation, and disabled interrupt moderation. Given how variable latency is game to game, it's difficult to tell if this is making any difference, but thought I'd add it in as extra info Cheers